Category Archives: Music

Surplus Charity Fundraiser – Royal Oak – Saturday 15th

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SurplusFest are holding a fundraiser for two local Cardiff charities. To raise much needed funds for Cardiff Foodbank and Cardiff Women’s Aid. All money raided will go to the organisations.
Please come and support the event, round the corner from us, where Broadway meets Newport Road.”This is a family friendly event and we welcome everyone to come and join in.

We have a circus workshop in the afternoon where you’ll be able to learn new circus skills including poi, juggling, hoopla and many more skills…..

PLUS lush munch from the lovely FOOD NOT BOMBS!

Plus a BBQ selling Burgers and Hotdogs

We also have someone coming down to do some Henna for the afternoon and a fire show in evening.

There will be a firepit in the garden for folks to keep warm

DOORS 2PM-12:30AM

ENTRY ADULT £6, CHILDREN £3

COME STOMP YOUR FEET AND RAISE SOME FUNDS!!!!!!!!”

Cardiff Homeless Action event for World Homeless Day

This Saturday a number of groups in Cardiff and south Wales are hosting an event to mark World Homeless Day.

It’s an event to raise awareness and to get people involved in taking further action together with people who are homeless.

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Daytime – 3pm to around 6pm - info-stalls, music, free food, art, kids activities, speakers, free-shop and workshops; including destitution, squatting and skipping.

Evening – 7pm to 11pm – live music and a DJ, bar

http://cardiffh​omelessaction.o​rg/

GRAND COLLAPSE + DROPPING BOMBS – Benefit for Frack Free Wales – June 20th

This Friday at The Red and Black Umbrella we welcome back old favourites Grand Collapse  the night before their ALBUM RELEASE in Bristol. Also playing will be Punk all the way from Dublin- Dropping Bombs!


Grand Collapse-
http://grand-collapse.bandcamp.com/

Dropping Bombs-
http://droppingbombs.bandcamp.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvDCoZWs6W8

All profits go to Frack Free Wales.

Some info about what Fracking means to you, and what can be done to help end the disastrous destruction of our environments: http://frack-off.org.uk/fracking-hell/frontline/

Doors at 6pm, BYOB, Drink Tolerated, Drunkenness not.

Love And Rage, Share widely! x

Folk Art/Graffiti, Seedswap, Edible Gardening, Vegan BBQ, Music+ more! This Sunday 11th May

Folk Art and Gardening day at the Red and Black Umbrella- The Revolution is Growing!

This Sunday we will happily be opening our doors to the community as we host an autonomous folk arts, bbq, music and fun day on sunday. Bring paint ya’ll!

From 11am onwards we will be sharing music, vegan food, seeds and art.
We ask and encourage those who use the space to bring vegan food, seeds to swap, paints to decorate our newly white-washed social centre walls and gardening supplies that we can use for the edible garden that we hope to start cultivating this year.


We have a nice clear space ready for Sunday, thanks to those who attended our productive (work) day yesterday.  It’s time for the space to get a new face on!
Ideas for the outside of the building greatly appreciated.

We welcome families and dogs
57 – 5 8 clifton street, cardiff.

Love and Peas! xX

Perkie and the Perkettes, Efa Supertramp, Olive Anne + more!

At our next event at the brolly we welcome PERKIE and the Perkettes in the middle of their tour…
Supported by local acts Twisted (ft. Olive Anne), Efa Supertramp and Emy Lou!

The night will be to raise some funds for the Red and Black Umbrella Social Centre with proceeds to be put towards fixing various holes, leaks, cracks and general DIY.

14th April (Mon)
Suggested Donation £3, Doors at 5.30

BYOB, drink tolerated, drunkenness not!

If you don’t know what Perkie sounds like with a band, but would like to find out, then you would do well to go get yer lug’oles round this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_HvSsNw8ow or check the bandcamp if you’ve got a longer attention span.

Perkie poster

The Rail Yard Ghosts, Peasants and Bandit the Panther + more! April 6th

rbu ryg gig posterWith great pleasure we announce the line-up of our next gig at the Umbrella, we are excited to welcome some International, Boot Stomping Bluegrass from-

RailYard Ghosts

http://railyardghosts.bandcamp.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4ND7AMgVwc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLdWS4PWUTs

+ Support from
Peasants!
(USA), Bandit the Panther (UK) and Ash Victim!

With food and a short film to open the night.

The event will raise ABC funds for our fallen friend and Comrade who passed away earlier this year. Profits will go to prisoners he was in contact with and supporting from outside the cage, who need funds as their legal aid has been dropped. For more information you can keep an eye on this site and come along to one of our next Cardiff ABC meetings.

“So, farewell for now, my friend, until the next round of magic and mayhem against civilisation.”

Suggested Donation £3

Doors at 5pm.
BYOB- drink tolerated, drunkenness not!

 

‘This is England’ film screening

On Thursday 20th March, the RBU is proud to present a Film screening of ‘This is England’, followed by a discussion on ‘how we can oppose the National Front’.

Vegan food and popcorn (for donation) will also be served..- Join us from 7pm.

TIE_PosterThis Is England is a 2006 British drama film written and directed by Shane Meadows. The story centres on young skinheads in England in 1983. The film illustrates how their subculture, which has its roots in 1960s West Indian culture, especially skasoul, and reggae music,[4][5] became adopted by white nationalists, which led to divisions within the skinhead scene. The film’s title is a direct reference to a scene where the character Combo explainshis nationalist views using the phrase “this is England” during his speech.

[ 'This is England' on IMDB ]

eventAnd join a few of us afterwards as we head to ‘Strictly Bounce’ – a fundraiser for Stop NATO Cymru at Undertone on Church Street.

10pm – 3am // £3 Entry.

Featuring: Greggerz, Wowza, Dash & App, D#mental, Steady Jay.

SMASH EDO BENEFIT: Cosmo, Article 8, Emy Lou, Ffyc off Ffesbwc launch + more

A gathering underground in 10 feet tall!

11a-12, Church Street, CF10 1BG

Thursday 19th December from 8pm.

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Acts include:

Cosmo who’s launching two new albums and a blog about his experiences in Palestine, (www.cosmoguitar.net)

Article 8 – Welsh and Egyptian fusion

Emy Lou – Sonical and soulful observations

Also this will be the launch party of the first Ffyc offer Ffesbwc DIY underground zine for a year! Info stalls include contributions from the IWW Cymru – the Welsh branch of the Industrial Workers of the World who have recently celebrated their first year.

We’ll also be raising funds for people arrested on a Smash EDO action earlier this year.

£4 on the door. (For a good cause, but could be less if you don’t have it.)

And for anyone who tracebooks: https://www.facebook.com/events/620480734679894/

The Red and Black Umbrella Collective Cordially Invite you to our Two Year Anniversary Birthday Shenanigans….

If you’re organised enough to carry ’round a diary (I am definitely not) penciling in the
1st AND 2nd of November is highly advisable as it will see our first festival!

A two day event ending on the 2nd November to celebrate 2 YEARS of the occupied building in Cardiff. Easy enough to remember, right?

Beginning as a vague plan to host an Anarcho-Folk festival in Cardiff; the event has now evolved into a two day celebration of the ‘Brolly. EATCAKE
The space it has provided us has been invaluable to many, so we invite anyone and everybody who has shared the space with us to come, in particular any guests we have had to stay, musicians who’ve played and individuals who’ve led any lessons or workshops. Please come and celebrate with us!
This is an open event and will be donation upon entry to pay the acts who are travelling. Any excess money donated to us will go towards Cardiff squat funds and to Freedom Press Bookshop (who are still raising money to repair their shop and replace up to 700 books lost after fascists petrol-bombed their shop earlier this year).
Nobody will be refused entry if they cannot pay.

We will be releasing more information over the next two weeks to keep you all in suspense, just know that you will need your best dancing boots and both headliners will be supported by amazing local acts and musicians.

If you would like to play at the festival, run a stall or workshop on either of the days get in touch.
Also, any help with cooking or supplying skipped/vegan food for the festival would be much appreciated as we will have many mouths to feed!

Doors TBA
Drink tolerated after 7pm, Drunkenness not.
No drugs, no thugs!

Love and Peas, Emy xx

NOSON AFIACH – Piss On Authority & Public Order Act

AFIACH yn cyflwyno / presents:

PISS ON AUTHORITY
Raging Anti Fascist Anarcho Punk Band from Birmingham/Bristol
https://soundcloud.com/piss-on-authority

PUBLIC ORDER ACT
Dub/Punk/Ska
Bristol

Friday 26th of July, 7pm-11pm

NEW VENUE – ONE SQUAT – Moria Terrace, opposite the Prison, Adamsdown

 

Vegan Snacks for Donation. Refreshment available.
Bwyd Fegan am Gyfraniad. Diodydd ar gael.

Suggested donation £3-5
Awgrymir gyfraniad o £3-5

Piss on Authority are on tour, so please donate kindly so they can get to their next destination.
Mae Piss on Authority ar daith, felly plis cyfranwch yn hael fel fedra nhw gyradd y lle nesaf!

PLEASE RESPECT THE VENUE – 11pm END TIME – AS IT IS PEOPLE’S HOMES.
OS GWELWCH YN DDA, PARCHWCH Y ADEILAD GAN MAI POBOL YN BYW YNA.